Walking Music: Find The Right Beat To Boost Your Energy

Walking music is a great way to give you a boost of energy while exercising. This article will provide you with a complete guide to selecting the best songs for your walks.

You'll find helpful advice to:

• Create your own personalized play-list of your favorite walking music. Read on for GREAT song recommendations! You'll find songs for every walking pace.
• Use a great app that will change the tempo of the songs you already have downloaded on your iPhone or iPod to match your walking pace called Tempo Magic Pro.
• Purchase a pre-made fitness music mix that has the perfect songs to exercise to, plus guidance and motivation to stay on track.
• Download fun new fitness apps for your smartphone. Find the top rated fitness apps to help motivate you, count calories, find new routes and much more.
• And don't forget to click here and share your favorite walking music with other walkers!

Have you ever noticed what happens when your favorite song comes on the radio?

Maybe you start tapping your foot or clapping your hands. In some form or another, you start moving. Why is that? Because our favorite songs give us energy.

There is evidence to support this too! Many studies have been conducted on the power of listening to music while exercising.

One study conducted at Hampden-Sydney College in Virgina found that students traveled 11% further while listening to music than listening to silence or static. Additionally, they rated their levels of exertion as lower than the students who listened to silence or static.

This study demonstrates that those who listen to music while exercising are able to push themselves further without noticing the extra effort. (source: Reuters.com Music Helps Exercisers Go Further with Less Effort By Alison McCook)

A word of caution before we go further. Keep your music at a low volume so that you can hear the sounds around you and stay aware of your surroundings. You don't want your music so loud that you can't hear traffic, animals, people or cyclists coming up behind you.

You can make your own play-list by finding songs with the right tempo that will match your walking pace. You’ll need to find the beats per minute of the song to ensure that it has the right tempo for walking.

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Here is a guide for selecting songs with the proper beats per minute to match your fitness level:

Beginner (slow stroll): 115 – 118 beats per minute

See my recommendations for:

slow walking music.

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Intermediate (brisk walking): 118 – 126 beats per minute

See my recommended list of:

brisk walking music

Here's a great CD that you can download from . All of the songs have been remastered so they are just perfect for brisk walking.

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Advanced (fast walking): 130 – 138 beats per minute

See my recommendations for:

fast walking music

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Power walking: 137+ beats per minute

See my recommendations for:

power walking music.

Here's a great power walking cd you can download directly from . If you love 80's music, you'll love this CD!

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How to Change The Tempo of Your Music to Match Your Pace

I recently came across an app for your iPhone or ipod called Tempo Magic Pro that automatically changes the Beats Per Minute (BPM) of any song already loaded on your iPod or iPhone. You can set it to the exact walking pace you want and it will either slow down or speed up the songs you already listen to.

Don't worry, it won't make the artists sound like the Chipmunks or slow their voices down so much that it sounds like they are talking underwater. That's because it doesn't change the pitch of their voices.

Now you can turn all of the songs you love into great walking music for a great price.

Download Tempo Magic Pro

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Why Buy a Walking Fitness Music Mix?

These specially designed mixes offer many options. Some of the options to choose from are:

• Songs for warm-ups and cool-downs
• Inspiration, encouragement and motivation by a fitness expert
• Interval training
• Stretching tips and advice

Where can you find music for fitness walking?

I put together this carousel of great MP3 downloads that you can get from Amazon. Not all songs are sung by the original artists because the songs have been remade to an appropriate tempo for each fitness level. They sound very much like the originals, though.

iTunes also has a lot of great walking mixes. Some of my favorites are:

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Top Rated Fitness Apps

I recently purchased an iPhone and have been having a lot of fun exploring the large selection of fitness apps available. These powerful apps can be somewhat of a virtual fitness trainer by tracking your calories consumed, calories burned and much more.

Virtual Walk - This app is available on Adroid phones and Google Play. What I love about this app is that is provides you with virtual walking routes around the United States. So while you're walking your usual daily route, this app transports you to Washington D.C.,the Appalachian Trail or wherever you want to go. You'll learn facts about the area along the way and track your stats at the same time. What fun!

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